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11-15-2008 18:54
Time, ABC, BBC... let's see 508 articles to choose from.
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11-15-2008 19:29
Hmm, maybe that's why the Help Islands where so crowded today.

People heard about getting divorced as a result of Second Life and suddenly the crowds are beating the door down to get in. I can understand that quite well. ;)

One should remember that Google News is selected by bot. It might be that one of the Google news bots is helping out his landbot brother-in-law or something like that.
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11-15-2008 19:34
From: SuezanneC Baskerville
Hmm, maybe that's why the Help Islands where so crowded today.

People heard about getting divorced as a result of Second Life and suddenly the crowds are beating the door down to get in. I can understand that quite well. ;)

One should remember that Google News is selected by bot. It might be that one of the Google news bots is help out his landbot brother-in-law or something like that.


Lining up to get their own virtual divorces? :p
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11-15-2008 19:34
From: SuezanneC Baskerville

One should remember that Google News is selected by bot.


I've heard that 40% of the internet and up to 35% of real life is bots.
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11-15-2008 19:36
From: Osprey Therian
I've heard that 40% of the internet and up to 35% of real life is bots.

I'm entirely bot, except for the part of me that's a plantar's wart. That thing is hard to get rid of, darn it.
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11-15-2008 19:48
From: Osprey Therian
I've heard that 40% of the internet and up to 35% of real life is bots.



.... and 66% of *them* are cross-gendered.
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11-15-2008 21:53
From: SuezanneC Baskerville

One should remember that Google News is selected by bot. It might be that one of the Google news bots is helping out his landbot brother-in-law or something like that.


Coulda been that. Coulda been Skynet.
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11-16-2008 00:42
Yeah well plenty of people looking for an easyway to divorce obviously :)
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11-16-2008 03:46
There is no such thing as Google News. It's just a specialised search the delivers links to news sources. In this case it's a listing of a page in the Guardian's website.
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11-16-2008 06:07
From: Phil Deakins
There is no such thing as Google News. It's just a specialised search the delivers links to news sources. In this case it's a listing of a page in the Guardian's website.

So why do they call it Google News? What would you call it if you were Google?
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11-16-2008 06:15
From: Tegg Bode
So why do they call it Google News? What would you call it if you were Google?
It isn't called Google News, unless there's a part of the site that I haven't seen. The image that the OP posted is just a part of a page of news results - links to news sources.
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11-16-2008 06:21
From: Tegg Bode
So why do they call it Google News? What would you call it if you were Google?


Have to be "Gnus", wouldn't it.

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11-16-2008 06:41
From: Phil Deakins
It isn't called Google News, unless there's a part of the site that I haven't seen.
http://news.google.com/
http://news.google.co.uk/

And probably many other country codes, too.

Google News does exist (see the page logo), but it works like an aggregator of news feeds. You can search it for any news term you like, and it will return results. The image that Bree posted is a cropped screenshot of some returned results.
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11-16-2008 08:25
Yes, but it's not "Google News", which doesn't exist. It's just what I said it is - what you said it is.
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11-16-2008 08:29
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Have to be "Gnus", wouldn't it.

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11-16-2008 08:32
*snerks* Amazing how one person writes the story, the others just cut n' paste for theirs.

On second thought, no.. no it's not.
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11-16-2008 08:51
From: Phil Deakins
It isn't called Google News, unless there's a part of the site that I haven't seen. The image that the OP posted is just a part of a page of news results - links to news sources.

Sp it's actually Google News Results then?
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11-16-2008 09:39
From: Phil Deakins
Yes, but it's not "Google News", which doesn't exist. It's just what I said it is - what you said it is.



Taken right off the top of the web page.



http://news.google.com/
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11-16-2008 09:47
From: ArchTx Edo
Taken right off the top of the web page.



http://news.google.com/


I think Phil's point was that this wasn't a new story, generated by some google news agency, it's just the same story (stories) we've been looking at accessible in a different way.
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11-16-2008 10:18
From: Tegg Bode
Sp it's actually Google News Results then?
Yes. It just lists links to the pages of news websites.
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11-16-2008 10:25
From: ArchTx Edo
Taken right off the top of the web page.



http://news.google.com/
I hadn't seen that before. They do have a news portal after all. My mistake.

The only times I've seen news links listings are when I've done a search and then clicked on "News" for news links. Then it's nothing but a specialised search, providing links to news stories on news sites, which is more or less what the portal is except that is displays them a little differently, and categorises them.
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